reap : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: reap	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reap v gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn: reap, harvest, glean] get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association" Synonym(s): reap, draw
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reap \Reap\, v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. --Ps. cxxvi. 5.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reap \Reap\, n. [Cf. AS. r[c6]p harvest. See {Reap}, v.] A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reap \Reap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reaping}.] [OE. repen, AS. r[c6]pan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.] 1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting. When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. --Lev.[?][?][?]. 9. 2. To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions. Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate? --Milton. 3. To clear or a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field. 4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] --Shak. {Reaping hook}, an instrument having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.